Zoom Acquires Onyx to Add Enterprise Search to Its AI Platform

Zoom announced Oct. 23 that it acquired Onyx, adding an enterprise search and knowledge management platform to its AI services as the company builds tools that connect work conversations with company information.

Onyx was founded in 2023 and connects to more than 50 enterprise applications. It will continue as a standalone, open-source platform that is model-agnostic, app-agnostic and self-hostable. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed.

The acquisition follows Zoom’s Oct. 20 introduction of its Unified Context Layer, designed to link conversations from meetings, phone calls, chats and contact center interactions with company documents and information from connected apps. Search & Ask APIs and new MCP servers were available at the layer’s launch, giving developers and AI agents access to Zoom capabilities outside its own app.

Onyx adds enterprise search across business applications to Zoom’s effort to make workplace information available to AI tools. The Unified Context Layer covers conversations and company information connected to Zoom; Onyx links to more than 50 enterprise applications.

“The harder problem, and the one that actually determines whether AI delivers value, is what happens next,” said Russell Dicker, Zoom’s chief product officer.

Onyx co-founders Chris Weaver and Yuhong Sun said in an Oct. 21 letter that they had started work on a Zoom connector. Future connections between Onyx and Zoom’s AI products will be optional.

Zoom’s revenue reached $1,277.2 million in fiscal 2027’s second quarter, ended July 31, 2026, up 4.9% from a year earlier. Enterprise revenue rose 7.8% to $787.5 million.